Hoshizora Camping demonstrates a cool way of making your camp stove super cool. He first angles the holes in the secondary combustion layer and then adds a fire ring to an ordinary, boring camp stove. With some tweaking, the flame coming out of your stove will be tornadoed into a cool braid-like effect. I like how he shows how he experiments with different configurations to get the best effects.
I think this would be a great way to add a luxury touch to your camp stove and give you something cool to watch at the end of a long day of hiking or climbing.
Luke Edwin shares this video collection of cool and often very simple tricks to get some interesting effect shots. Motion controlled greenscreen, shots that zoom in and out through objects, slow-motion effects, product shots and lots of little effects used in many modern videos. It’s pretty incredible these techniques and equipment are achievable by just about anyone for a very limited budget.
Signal Festival is a festival of artworks from light design, visual and digital art, artificial intelligence, as well as conceptual art. It occurs in several locations in Prague and has reached it’s 20th year.
FLUX was one of most cool looking entries for 2023. It’s a fascinating interactive light installation from Ksawery Komputery. The installation is 6 meters tall, 13-meter diameter on the ground, 4 high-speed cameras, 8-speaker sound system, 4 800 meters of LEDs strips, 144,000 pixels running at 100 frames per second, with custom software and hardware. As people approached the installation, it would display them on the strands of led lights.
It also made an earlier debut at Miami Art Week Dec 2022:
AI trends pop up just about every week. The latest is knolling photos. Knolling photos are pictures of arranged objects so they are in parallel or 90-degree angles. The images create an organized and clean portrayal of many related things. They often look like exploded parts lists.
Tokenized AI by Christian Heidorn walks you through how to craft prompts to generate what you’re looking for. It’s a great example of how a prompt engineer sorts through creating what they want.
“It’s like a child’s backyard project”. The cool looking unibody design shakes and rattles, only goes about 12mph, has no heater/AC, isn’t practical, but there it is and it turns heads since it’s basically an art car.
While others artists are suing AI engine companies, Peter Gabriel is embracing it. And the court will rise, while the pillars all fall comes from his new album i/o. The video was created by Junie Lau using various AI tech, including Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, MidJourney, and DALL·E 2.
Ottockraft design shop makes a variety of metal sculptures you can buy and set up in your own home or garden. They have a decidedly polygon model feel. They’re not cheap, but maybe they’re cool enough for your house or business?
These are programs that autogenerate EVERYTHING you see and here. They generate the dialog they say, they generate the actors voices, they generate the actors, movements, visuals, and scenes. Everything is automatically generated by AI.
One of the more interesting and new ones I’ve seen is Interactive AI Generated Star Trek. Created by just 4 people, this is one of the highest quality AI generated episodic content I’ve seen so far. It runs 24/7. There’s a more or less consistent story based on user submissions, moving (but fixed location) camera angles, autogenerated characters with movement, auto-generated voice audio, and good scene transitions between some fixed scene locations. Not only that, it’s interactive and you can help direct the action via chat commands like:
!topic [text]: Scenes on the bridge.
!awaymission [text]: Scenes on the desert planet.
!transmission [text]: Transmission scenes with Winglons.
!messhall [text]: Subs only! Scenes in the USS Archimedes Mess Hall
!iceplanet [text]: Subs only! Scenes on the tundra planet
Is this the future of TV shows? The end of actors?
Camillemormal creates some incredible web design effects. Some of which are incredibly cool; but also incredibly straightforward. It’s a great example of how art and engineering work together in really interesting ways – and those that can do both cleanly and simply are able to come up with mind-blowing stuff.
Not unlike the coding artistry of early video game programmers that squeeze crazy effects out of woefully inadequate hardware.
Need some royalty-free music or sound effects for your game or a video you made? Do you need a drum solo, ambient music, or other audio track to set the mood? TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023 list called out the Stable Audio AI music creator as such a tool to get music generated for free.
As an example of how good Stable Audio is, enter “Post-Rock, Guitars, Drum Kit, Bass, Strings, Euphoric, Up-Lifting, Moody, Flowing, Raw, Epic, Sentimental, 125 BPM” for a 95-second track – and the site will create audio like the results in this YouTube video. (It just generates the music, not any imagery)
